Venison & Redcurrant Casserole
This is a wonderful recipe for either a dinner party or Sunday lunch. Whether or not you use redcurrants in the actual sauce or purely as a decoration depends very much on the time of year and variety of redcurrants you can find. End of summer home-grown redcurrants add a wonderful sweet tartness to the sauce, however imported under-ripe fruits can impart a certain bitterness and are probably best left for garnish. If you do not use fresh berries add a little extra redcurrant jelly.
Yield
4 servingsPrep
30 minCook
90 minReady
2 hrsTrans-fat Free, Low Carb, Low Sodium
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 400 | grams |
venison
Cubed |
|
| 200 | grams |
beef chuck steak
cubed |
|
| 1 | large |
onions
roughly chopped |
|
| 6 | medium |
mushrooms
Thickly sliced |
|
| 1 | tablespoon |
all-purpose flour
|
|
| 50 | grams |
red currants
(ripe) |
* |
| 1 ½ | teaspoons |
currant jelly
|
*
|
| 1 | teaspoon |
thyme
(fresh) |
*
|
| ½ | pint |
red wine
|
*
|
| ½ | pint |
beef stock
|
*
|
Ingredients
| Amount | Measure | Ingredient | Features |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4E+2 | grams |
venison
Cubed |
|
| 2E+2 | grams |
beef chuck steak
cubed |
|
| 1 | large |
onions
roughly chopped |
|
| 6 | medium |
mushrooms
Thickly sliced |
|
| 15 | ml |
all-purpose flour
|
|
| 5E+1 | grams |
red currants
(ripe) |
* |
| 7.5 | ml |
currant jelly
|
*
|
| 5 | ml |
thyme
(fresh) |
*
|
| 237 | ml |
red wine
|
*
|
| 237 | ml |
beef stock
|
*
|
Directions
This casserole is best cooked in a cast-iron casserole dish, which will transfer from stovetop to oven. Heat some olive oil and seal the meat over a medium heat, there is no need to have the oil smoking hot. Add onions to pan and sweat for about 5 minutes, add mushrooms and thyme and cook for a further couple of minutes. Add redcurrants, stock redcurrant jelly, and wine - bring to the boil and then return the meat. Cover the casserole and cook for 1 hour 45 minutes. Remove lid and taste to check how tender the meat is - different cuts of meat can vary considerably in their cooking times. The casserole will happily cook for a further hour or so.
